The most creative signs from the protests in Berkeley, San Francisco

The most creative signs from the protests in Berkeley,...

1of19A protester, who declined to give her name, rallies in opposition to a planned conservative gathering on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2017, in San Francisco.Photo: Noah Berger, Special to The Chronicle

2of19Protesters in Berkeley and San Francisco got creative with their signs over the weekend. While far-right rallies were canceled, many counter-protesters still showed up Saturday and Sunday to make their voices heard.Photo: J.T. Grimes/Twitter

3of19A man holds up a flag during a counter-protest against the alt-right rally that was scheduled to be held a few blocks away in Berkeley, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017.Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle

4of19Protesters in Berkeley and San Francisco got creative with their signs over the weekend. While far-right rallies were canceled, many counter-protesters still showed up Saturday and Sunday to make their voices heard.Photo: Doug Hatley/@ZyxSync

5of19Protesters in Berkeley and San Francisco got creative with their signs over the weekend. While far-right rallies were canceled, many counter-protesters still showed up Saturday and Sunday to make their voices heard.Photo: Maddie @fishslapping/Twitter

6of19Protesters in Berkeley and San Francisco got creative with their signs over the weekend. While far-right rallies were canceled, many counter-protesters still showed up Saturday and Sunday to make their voices heard.Photo: Michael Cabanatuan

7of19Protesters in Berkeley and San Francisco got creative with their signs over the weekend. While far-right rallies were canceled, many counter-protesters still showed up Saturday and Sunday to make their voices heard.Photo: Eric Panzer

8of19Greta Christina holds up her sign during a counter-protest in San Francisco Saturday.Photo: Ingrid Nelson

10of19Navy veteran Lee Curry holds a sign against violence after counterprotesters chased conservative demonstrators from Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. The conservatives had planned a "No Marxism in America" gathering.Photo: Noah Berger, Special to The Chronicle

11of19Protesters in Berkeley and San Francisco got creative with their signs over the weekend. While far-right rallies were canceled, many counter-protesters still showed up Saturday and Sunday to make their voices heard.Photo: @hellomissamy/Twitter

12of19A woman stands in front of an anti-fascist group with shields on Martin Luther King Jr. Way during a clash between protesters and the police in Berkeley, Calif., on Sunday, August 27th, 2017.Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle

13of19Protesters in Berkeley and San Francisco got creative with their signs over the weekend. While far-right rallies were canceled, many counter-protesters still showed up Saturday and Sunday to make their voices heard.Photo: Screenshot via Twitter

14of19This one isn't a sign, but it's still a pretty creative way to take a political stance.Photo: Screenshot via Twitter

15of19Protesters in Berkeley and San Francisco got creative with their signs over the weekend. While far-right rallies were canceled, many counter-protesters still showed up Saturday and Sunday to make their voices heard.Photo: Screenshot via Twitter

16of19Protesters in Berkeley and San Francisco got creative with their signs over the weekend. While far-right rallies were canceled, many counter-protesters still showed up Saturday and Sunday to make their voices heard.Photo: Screenshot via Twitter

17of19Protesters in Berkeley and San Francisco got creative with their signs over the weekend. While far-right rallies were canceled, many counter-protesters still showed up Saturday and Sunday to make their voices heard.Photo: Screenshot via Twitter

18of19Bretchen Towers (left) and Joe Wideman assemble posters at Market and Castro streets before a march to a rally against hate and bigotry at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017.Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle

19of19A protester, who declined to give her name, rallies in opposition to a planned conservative gathering on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2017, in San Francisco.Photo: Noah Berger, Special to The Chronicle

Liberals, anti-fascists, and other politically active Bay Area residents weren't going to let the last-minute cancellations of far-right demonstrations in San Francisco and Berkeley ruin their protest plans.

Despite the cancellations, a small group of right-wing demonstrators still protested Sunday at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley. Thousands of counter-protesters also showed up to make their voices heard, many of them holding signs with anti-hate and anti-Trump messages.

Protests in San Francisco Saturday remained peaceful and most demonstrators in Berkeley were non-violent; however, skirmishes did break out in Berkeley Sunday afternoon. Some masked anarchists were seen chasing away and beating conservative demonstrators.

Alix Martichoux is a producer at SFGATE with a focus on video content. She was born and raised in the Bay Area and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2014. She has also worked at NBC Bay Area and KFOR in Oklahoma City.